Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory
281 questions players ask about Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-10-31.
Setup & Components
- How much money does the State start with in the Treasury?
- How many rounds and turns does a game of Hegemony last?
- Are the Middle Class starting companies placed in a 2-player game?
- What are the five cylinders in each class color for?
- Can you build more than one Storage for the same good or service?
- What happens if the worker you need is not left in the supply?
- Is money limited by the number of coins in the box?
- How many voting cubes does each class have in total?
- How are the Public Companies set up, and do they depend on player count?
- Does the Population track change when the starting immigration cards add workers at setup?
Turn Structure & Elections
- Who gets the money when a rule says to pay but names no recipient, such as loan interest?
- Is the voting bag refilled before an immediate vote?
- What happens when the voting bag runs out while drawing cubes for an election?
- Is the voting bag emptied at the end of each round?
- Is the whole Elections Phase skipped when no Bill was proposed?
- Does Refill Bag happen once per bill or once per Elections Phase?
- In a 2-player game, are Middle Class cubes still added to the bag?
- How many voting cubes does the Middle Class add during Refill Bag?
- Do you get your Bill marker back after an immediate vote, and can the Policy be changed again?
- If everyone votes in favor of a bill, who gains victory points?
Working Class
- Can Extra Shift be used on a company that has a Strike token?
- Can the Capitalist use Give Bonus on a struck company, and does it end the Strike?
- Does placing a Strike token commit the striking workers?
- Do you gain Influence from a Strike if the striking workers have left the company?
- If a policy change raises a struck company's wage from L1 to L2, is the Strike removed?
- Do General Strike tokens follow the normal Strike restrictions?
- Does a struck company still count as operational for taxes and the voting bag?
- Does a Strike stop all production in a Middle Class company?
- When can the Working Class call a Demonstration, and when does it end?
- Do open slots in a Middle Class company that isn't running count for a Demonstration?
Capitalist Class
- Does raising a company's Wage from Level 1 to Level 2 commit its Workers?
- If I move a Worker out of a company and put a different Worker into the slot in the same action, are the Workers committed?
- Can the Capitalist's Extra Shift action card be used on a company with committed workers?
- How many sales can I make in one Sell to the Foreign Market action?
- How do payments work between Revenue and Capital?
- Does the Capitalist's Wealth marker move backwards when Capital drops?
- Do Loans reduce the Capitalist's round scoring?
- Do I pay tariffs on a Business Deal if I split the goods between the Free Trade Zone and regular Storage?
- Can production go directly into the Free Trade Zone while home Storage has room?
- Can I choose which resource to expand with Buy Storage?
Middle Class
- What does the Middle Class Import Subsidy card let you do?
- Does the Middle Class score VP when selling to the Foreign Market, including with Export Subsidy?
- What workers can the Middle Class use when building a company?
- How does the Middle Class gain Prosperity in the Scoring Phase?
- How does Middle Class Prosperity behave at the ends of its track?
- Can Land of Opportunity use one of the Middle Class's own skilled workers?
- In what order does the Middle Class use Food to cover needs?
- Does the Employment Subsidy's Legitimacy bonus count Middle Class companies without Working Class workers?
- Do Middle Class cards that give an Extra Shift effect need uncommitted workers?
- How does Middle Class Extra Shift work with Working Class employees, and does it stand workers up?
State
- What does Provide mean on State cards, and where do provided items go?
- How does the State get goods it has to Provide, and can it buy from the class it is providing to?
- Can the State provide Health and Education from Public Services without buying them?
- What happens to State Benefits that nobody takes?
- Can the State sell Health or Education to the Foreign Market?
- Where does money paid to the State go?
- How many Loans can the State have before the IMF intervenes?
- When is the IMF checked, and can the State repay Loans first?
- Does an IMF intervention halve Legitimacy, and do Legitimacy tokens count?
- Does an IMF intervention override the rule that committed workers' wages can't be lowered?
Politics & Policies
- How is the Tax Multiplier calculated from Policies 3, 4 and 5?
- Can a single Bill move a Policy more than one space, or go on a section that's not adjacent?
- Can Policies 6 and 7 be voted on like the others, and do they score at game end?
- Where do cubes and Influence go after an election?
- Is there a limit on how much Influence a player can hold?
- Can I see which voting cubes are in the bag?
- Can an immediate vote be called on any proposed Bill or only the one just proposed?
- How many Bills can a player have, and can I propose more than three in a round?
- With a card that proposes two Bills, can the second be on the same Policy?
- Does Preserve/Protect the Status Quo's reminder marker count as a proposed Bill?
Loans, IMF & Other Rules
- Does paying off a Loan cost 50 or 55?
- Can one Pay Off Loan action pay off more than one Loan?
- What costs can force a Loan, and does the order of paying matter?
- Is interest due right away on a Loan taken to pay interest?
- During Check IMF, must the State repay every Loan it can afford?
- When the IMF intervenes, are all wages forced to Level 1, including private companies?
- Are wages already paid at the old levels when Check IMF happens in Production?
- If the IMF closes a Public Company with Middle Class workers, does the Middle Class still pay income tax on it?
- What happens to proposed Bills when the IMF intervenes?
- Is there a limit on the Goods and Services in a player's personal area?
Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory – Crisis & ControlExpansion
- Where are the Automa rules, and do I need them for 2-3 players?
- Why do some action cards have dots next to the title, and are there 40 or 45 cards per deck?
- Can the Hidden Agendas, new action cards and Alternative Events be used independently?
- When are Hidden Agendas chosen during setup?
- Must the Crisis Response card be face-up from the start of the game?
- In Crisis & Control, does the State pay off all Loans in an IMF intervention?
- Does the IMF Crisis Response change the Labor Market tax rule?
- Can action cards change a Policy locked by an IMF intervention or Crisis Response?
- Where do Alternative Event benefits come from, and does repeating an event double them?
Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory – Historical EventsExpansion
- How do Historical Events trigger, and who benefits?
- When are Historical Events drawn, and do they need a State player?
- Does Embargo against Cuba stop buying Food during Cover Needs?
- If a Historical Event says there is no voting this round, what happens to proposed Bills?
- In World War II, does a Machinery token move to the Public Company that replaces a Luxury company?
- In French Revolution, can a faction call an Immediate Vote, and can another faction then pick the same Policy?
- How do Baby Boom's player counts work?
- Which way does Yellow Vest protests move the Policies?
- Does Asian Tigers Economic Miracle trigger once and apply to everyone?
- Do resources from a Historical Event come from the supply or the State?